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This is another “you saw it here” post. The NY Times has posted an article on what has become one of the five most viewed videos on YouTube with over nine million hits so far. The Times reveals our guitarist as Jeong-Hyun Lim, a 23-year-old from Korea.
Rich Schiesser: IT Systems Management: Designing, Implementing, and Managing World-Class Infrastructures
To all the CEO's out there - read this book, then take a long, hard look at your IT department. (IT managers, read this book before your CEO does.)
Jesse James Garrett: The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web
Light read, but enjoyable. Recommended for anyone (technical or non-technical) involved in a web applicaton project.
Ralph Kimball: The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Extracting, Cleanin
Make this the first book you read on data warehousing.
Shilpa Lawande: Oracle 10g Data Warehousing
This is an amazing book by an amazing technical author. A must-read for dba's involved with Oracle data warehouseing projects.
Simon Robinson: Professional C# (Programmer to Programmer)
Aimed at experienced programmers, this book is remarkably complete.
Laura Lemay: Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days (2nd Edition)
If you've worked with any scripting languages before, this book will actually teach you in 5 days.
